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If some magical genie came along and asked you, would you say yes and live an eternal life on earth or would you say no and die just like any normal person would die. (remember that if you say you want to live forever, you can not change your mind afterwards).
| I would want to live forever | 89 | |
| I would not want to live forever | 86 | |
| I would flip a coin | 9 | |
| I have no idea what I would do | 26 |
Everyone is forgetting that the Earth is not eternal.
When the sun expands billions of years from now and devours us in a heat death of the world and you're watching the entire show, alive but still able to feel pain - you'll be screeching and crying in the most intense agony imaginable. Humanity will have long been extinct, and you'll have been alone for a good eon or two, doomed to spend several more floating in blackness. You'll be gasping for air and begging for a death that will never come. All you can hope for is to land on an atmospheric planet and repeat the entire process. God forbid you find a black hole first.
Pain, experience, and the range of human emotion - these things are beautiful because they are finite. I'll take death when it comes to me.
Depends. Perhaps they mean immortal but not indestructable?
What if the person can be desinigrated? (Don't know if I spelled that right).
What if your skin gets burned, but it regenerates? Wouldn't that suggest that you burn away all the nerve cells that make you experience pain? Perhaps through all the pain, you faint or go into a comma due to the blood being taken out from the burning to the bone? Then maybe you get picked up by another species? (If you believe alien life exists).
Just my thoughts on the matter...
All those things are possible, but the only information I had to go on was that I would never die. But even if pain was not an issue, and even if I could stand eons of emptiness and loneliness, I wouldn't want to live forever. Like I said, the transience of beauty and experience is what appeals to me about life.
It depends. Probably not. I'm not very good at explaining how I feel about this one. I'll play safe and say "no", but I'd probably regret it. I often play safe and often regret it.
Look at the way science and technology have advanced in the last hundred years. They don't show signs of stopping. Hell yeah, I want to live forever! You can't even imagine how much cool stuff is going to be around in a hundred years if we manage not to blow ourselves up.
I would want to live forever. To have so much power, experience so much and gain so much. I have to say, immortality is something I wish I had every single day of my life.
This isn't a problem for me, although I think I see some of other people's points.
Sure, you would watch loved ones die, but you'll also experience love far more times than you would someone with one life.
Also, getting bored of life in the end is something I don't consider possible. As you stay the same way, the rest of the world evolves. So, you wouldn't actually get bored, you'd have new technology to use.
Would eternal life also include eternal youth?
There's a story in Greek Mythos, I believe it pertained to Nyx, Goddess of the Night, and a gorgeous Shepard boy.
She falls in love with him as he is sleeping in the pasture. Then takes him to her cave. At some point she goes to ask Zeus for the Gift of Eternal life, which he gives to her, but in her hast she forgets something just as important. She goes to her cave with the still sleeping Shepard boy and gives him the gift, thinking she'll be able to gaze at his sexy sleeping body for all eternity. Then, to her horror she realizes that she forgot to ask Zeus for the gift of eternal YOUTH! She tries to get him to give her the gift but he refuses.
Because of her mistake, the boy will live forever, BUT he will still age. Apparently, as the years wear on he ages until he's smaller then a cricket....
That in consideration, I would only take it if I also got eternal youth in the package. If not, then I'd embrace death or I'd try to find one of many items give you a prolonged death.
The Deathly Hallows, The One Ring,etc.
Then again I'd probably choose the Deathly Hallows, because the One Ring was made specifically for Sauron so, anyone else that tries to wear it will have a prolonged life, but will eventually sub come to the power of the Ruling Ring....
I would agree, but not without the ability to be able to kill myself when I wanted to. But I'm only 20. I think if you asked this to someone who had lived a full, long life; maybe someone in their late 80's, you would get a better response. Basically, just ask this to old people.
Only if there were others who could too, otherwise it would be too lonely if there was not a single other person out there who knows what you are going through.
Yes! The future is exciting, and death is my greatest fear... as more and more scientific discoveries are made, I believe we'll be able to gain god-like powers to manipulate the cosmos to our own will. Who wouldn't want a future like that!? Also, there may be many other planets out there beyond our galaxy that have the right conditions for us to live... and someday they may be within our reach. Someday we might even find there are other universes out there to discover... anything's possible.
If you where immortal...than what if the world ends? you would just flout through space.
alone.
lonely.
forever.
But I would say no. since I want to live my own life...My own experiences not every experience. I want to go where I need to. I want to taste. Breath. Hear. Live. *peacefull tune plays* I wish to answer as many things as I can in one lifetime. I want to ask as many questions I can in one life time. I want...death when it must come.
eternal life + eternal youth otherwise no reason left for living like a dead soul
Life is terrible is terrible as is sure living forever has its perks but the fact that time is limited makes it joyful.
No. Living forever would be amazing. Could you imagine what you could? You can run around the world. You can study everything and anything. You could have billions of wifes. Eventually, the world will exhaust. There's countless possibilities. If only OP was more specific.
Depends on two things.
Will I continue aging?
Am I invincible to all but myself?
I would but only if I had tons and tons of weed available for me to smoke
I used to have the dream to live forever; This changed when I read the Iliad: There is a moment when achilles know that he has 2 fates: 1.- If he leaves, he won't be a heroe, but he'll have a nice and easy life, 2.- If he stays, he'll be a heroe, but will die. In greek mythology, the afterworld is the most depressing state in the human life: No emotions, No thoughts, No anything.
Achilles know that begin a heroe is the only way for a mortal to be "immortal"; but he knows that it isn't worthy to die just to become "immortal".
Humans exist only to live for a while, begin unable to die would be pointless.